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    What? Happ power supplies no longer available?? WTH???

    Cool, just send me your credit card info first so you can pick up my location's electric bill. Maybe set aside some money for when a regulator inevitably blows and kills an irreplaceable PCB through overvoltage where a switcher would typically go into shutdown.
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    What fixed your game today / general repair log

    Game: Rampage Issue: Sticks are stuck or sluggish Repair: Pulling up on the stick made it move freely so I looked up the markings on the base plate and stumbled across the Monroe stick thread. The sticks hadn't been cleaned or lubed in 40 years, I had to double check to confirm there were no...
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    AC inputs to bench test ms pacman board

    Why don't you just do the DC mod?
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    25" D9200 won't hold sync with an input but "No Signal" works perfectly

    I'm trying to help out with a Big Blue project that's been stuck in the "basket case" stage for a while now. Was converted to a MAME multicab the previous owner just kind of packed the CP holes he wasn't using with bondo. We're trying to update it with a RaspberryJAMMA on the road to finding a...
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    Best LCD setup for DDR Xtreme?

    I'm responsible for a location DDR Xtreme Pro with a pretty bad LCD conversion. It's got a 20" hacked into the 25" mounting point, it takes almost a second to resync when the game switches between 240p and 480i, and it looks awful in 480i mode. We're looking to trade up, but would rather save...
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    Over rated games fueled by community hype.

    Gotta be Ice Cold Beer. It's the quintessential "drop a spare quarter when you're two or three beers into the night" game. Also about half of the Atari System 1 and 2 games. If you have a nice DVD player you could probably use one of the DVD games and make a playlist of the videos without the...
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    WG D9200 - Picture brightness shifts with horizontal position

    Had a D9200 with that EEPROM glitch where the picture seems to disappear. Sub brightness had reset to 33. Quick trip into factory OSD fixed that, but I discovered something strange when I was calibrating the rest of the display. If I set horizontal position to be greater than 92, the picture...
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    Atari Gauntlet: garbage colors on player sprites

    And then I come in this morning, look the board over one more time and notice tiny solder bridges on a couple of the ROM sockets. It's working fine now. Go me, I guess.
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    Atari Gauntlet: garbage colors on player sprites

    All right, it's been a month and we still haven't been able to get this board functional. Time to get the think tank on this. What's been done to it so far: Washed PCB and reseated sockets. This revealed/washed out/summoned weird schmutz on a bunch of the sockets. Replaced sockets used by...
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    What? Happ power supplies no longer available?? WTH???

    I was wondering what was going on with this. Why Happ would sit on their hands instead of exploiting the many takesy-backsies periods over the last year to get as many container-loads of product out as possible is beyond me. Maybe they just want to normalize the higher price and pin it on...
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    WTB: Send me your Peter Chou / PowerPro power supplies!

    I work at an arcade and our supply of screw-terminal power supplies is running out. Happ refuses to stock more and genuine Peter Chou/Happ models are seriously thin on the ground on fleabay. Help me be the hero of the day by sending me your unused or busted supplies. I'm looking for...
  12. terrorinstinct

    The LED debacle.

    What's the inrush current of a diode and two resistors?
  13. terrorinstinct

    NBA Showtime/NFL Blitz Dual Arcade

    Vegas games use an "off the shelf" (sometimes a variant with the passthrough connector left off to save money) Voodoo2. If you have a computer that can run DOS/Win95 and has PCI slots, you can install the Glide SDK and run MOJO.EXE to see if it will boot up or run some demos. If it doesn't work...
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    Questions about 2 different K7000s

    The received wisdom regarding width coils is that they're always seized from either heat stress or some idiot operator sticking a metal tool in there. If you try to torque the coil when it's seized you break the coil and it's RIP your chassis. The search term you need to use is "width coil...
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    Preferred replacement pinballs?

    Don't worry, you'll want to replace the balls after a couple thousand plays. It's not as regularly needed on an old EM as for moderns that smack the ball around harder, but few things destroy playfields like dirty, scratched or "facteted" pinballs.
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    Preferred replacement pinballs?

    I didn't even know pinsound sold balls. Next time try Ball Baron. Ninjas are highly recommended by the users of Pinside and I would trust them a lot further than some youtuber trying very hard to sound like he knows what he's talking about. They're also almost half the price of the silverjets...
  17. terrorinstinct

    Atari Gauntlet: garbage colors on player sprites

    The other day I noticed my Gauntlet upright was showing some garbage colored pixels around the edges of the player and monster sprites. Ghosts had flickery white outlines, the elf's bow and parts of his face were red, the shading on the wizard was blue when facing left, etc. Pushed on all the...
  18. terrorinstinct

    Repair log: Time Crisis tube swap, au naturel

    Today's patient was a Time Crisis upright with a 27" monitor. The existing tube was a rehabbed unit from arcadecup and was looking quite nasty after a few years (smearing, fuzzy, needed cranked screen voltage to get consistent gun readings, no red) so the decree was issued for a tube swap before...
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    Story from MGS translator

    The problem is so many "translators" are either failed writers taking out their resentment on more successful people who got jobs in the games industry elsewhere, or simply incompetents who only stay where they are because of publishers who could care less whether the end result has anything to...
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    Always fun when a newbie starts acting like a veteran

    I'm in my mid 20s and I don't think I want to know.
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